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Yeah , soldiers from the 50 Iraqi Army

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Division advised by second advise and

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assist brigades . 25th Infantry

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Division conduct a 1 20 millimeter

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mortar live fire exercise at Kush

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Military Training base . Iraq . The

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Iraqi soldiers are already proficient

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in conducting indirect fire machines ,

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but don't often get the chance to

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actually carry them out the training

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environment and came tv allows them to

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improve upon their own tactics . And

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also blamed some training methods from

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US forces as well . One first and

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foremost and most importantly will

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bring them confidence . It will have ,

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they'll make them confident of their

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own skills , it will make them

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confident of their own equipment and uh

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it will make them confident ,

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especially for the junior officers that

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they can indeed uh target and destroy

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indirect fire targets . Um That is the

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most important thing that will come out

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of this for us . We will see how they

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operate in terms of the live fire

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scenario and we also see how well our

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instruction is going through and of

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course we'll see how safely they can

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conduct it while doing so . He also

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said that as the Iraqis achieve

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tangible goals during this type of

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training , their motivation and

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camaraderie increases all while

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refining their capabilities to provide

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external security for Iraq as a

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collective unit . Yeah , reporting from

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Kirk kush military training base , Iraq ,

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I'm Sergeant Jesse Youngster